This is a rantish post to expose, in my usual style, my misgivings about my favorite games and the company that manages them Dear Wizards of the Coast, This is a letter to share with you my worries and disappointment at the way you have (or are) handling the game brands that I care about […]
Teaching Role Playing Games to New Players
This is a guest post of mine that originally appeared in Johnn Four’s Roleplaying tips newsletter #408. It’s reprinted here to allow for comments. Subscribe to John’s weekly e-zine for awesome RPG tips delivered to your inbox. Introduction Unless you have been living under a rock, you likely know there is a new edition of […]
Player Motivation and Types Revisited, Again
The Gen Con 2008 seminar I’ll co-host with my friends DNAPhil, Zach and Vicki is going to be about sharing tips with GMs about prepping RPG game session . My parts of that seminar (What I’ve been doing most nights of this week and possibly the next one) will cover Using Tropes (yay!) and Player […]
What’s your disgustingly good local dish?
I’m smack dab in the middle of my Gen Con preparation week (which will likely bleed over into the next one). This means that whatever I post here is going to be very light in relevant content. Since I can’t shut up and I hate silence, I put up little texts just to let you […]
Mini-Post: Ascension of the Drow and 4e Fantastic Terrain
Gen Con Drow Insanity This morning I had an email by Nicholas Logue, adventure writer extraordinaire from both Paizo and his own Sinister Adventures. Here it is: Hi All! If you are on this list, it means you have volunteered to GM and or assist with the Ascension of the Drow mega-event at Gencon this […]
Random Thoughts: Story Telling Dungeon Crawling Kids in Diablo’s Caves to Crit Mearls
(Told you I would not last a week) I was supposed to be at work, getting ready for the arrival of a new colleague in my team but my 6 year old son has developed a case of Chicken Pox. I’m therefore at home, playing some Raving Rabbits 2 with him and drawing some Manga […]
Taking a break for some Gen Con Prep
All right, up to now, whenever I posted about posting less, I always ended up posting more. However, I now have to write quite a few pages worth of Trope and Player type GM tips and advice for the Gen Con seminar I’ll be co-hosting with DNAPhil and Vicki Potter. I also need to do […]
Chatty’s Wow Posse: So it starts
Image Credit: Heliopolis at Deviant art So I joined the Kirin Tor Server after reading that Shamus Young was trying it (and if you read between the lines of his recent posts) liking it. I was well received in the Pig & Whistle Society guild and have also had the pleasure of buggin Shamus with […]
Chatty’s Review: The D&D 4e Player’s Handbook
Last week, I reviewed the DMG and found it to be the best version of this long-lived book. It wasn’t without flaws, chiefly among those was how the writing of Skill Challenges was doing the mechanic near-criminal injustice. This week, I’ll tackle the 4th Edition Players Handbook, from the standpoint of its content and then […]
Chatty’s Debates: The Relative Merits of Action-Oriented RolePlaying
I know that this here site has been somewhat content-lighter lately. Summer has arrived and I start to feel the pull for other evening activities than blogging. Also, since I don’t have a game going anymore, gone are the periodic DM logs or Game Prep posts. There’s nothing to be worried about, just a more […]
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